"It’s sad because I don't see the car leave and go no more,” Haywood says. “I really loved her. It really hurts. I really loved her."

Neighbors say Priddy has lived on Shawen Drive since the 1970's and has been there by himself since his wife died about five years ago.

When Fleming was gunned down in her driveway, Haywood says she suspected Priddy could be the shooter.

"We were thinking maybe it could be,” she says. “We were hoping it wasn't him."

Throughout the years that the two lived next door to each other, Haywood says they would argue every once in a while but says lately those arguments became more frequent. It got to the point, Haywood says, that Priddy would be waiting by his fence for Fleming to get home.

"She sat in the car and he stood there by the fence," Haywood says.

Haywood says she knew they would bicker about things like yard work, but isn't sure what their more recent arguments were about.

"Sure has upset this neighborhood, I’ll tell you that,” Haywood says.

Now Haywood’s view out her front door is much quieter. One neighbor is behind bars and the other about to be buried.

"I just really hate it was her," she says.

NewsChannel 3 obtained a criminal complaint and search warrant for Priddy. The complaint says the bullet that was taken from the victim matched to one of the guns taken from Priddy's home.

The warrant says several guns and ammunition were taken from the home. It also says that neighbors told police that he was sitting on his porch before they heard the gunshot and neighbors saw him run into his house once police and medics arrived.

3 comments

Let's be real, here....

I’ve also got one of those neighbors who looks out the window all day and watches other peoples’ comings and goings. I really wish she would get another hobby.
Seriously though-looks like this poor woman just struck out all over the place when it came to her neighborhood-the nosy old bat across the street, the nutcase next door….if someone was waiting at the fence to yell at me every day when I came home from work, I’d consider it a police matter,or maybe call Social Services and tell them the old curmudgeon had a screw loose and needed a welfare check. Those who watch the Lifetime channel a little too much tend to assume that elderly people are harmless old sweeties, when in fact they can be as dangerous as anybody else. This guy needs to spend however many years he has left locked up.